Tucson tax expert chimes in on proposed tax plan

President Donald Trump continued his campaign to sell his tax proposal to the American people Friday with a speech to the National Association of Manufacturers. "Impossible to square with the president's rhetoric". Senator Chuck Schumer said it would create a "windfall" for wealthy Americans.

The tax plan seeks to encourage US multinationals to bring those profits back to the U.S.by offering a one-time, low tax rate under "deemed" repatriation, meaning they have to pay the tax whether they bring the money back or not. Then, it partly makes up for that by raising individual income taxes by $470 billion (blue bars).

The tax reform plan that Trump unveiled in IN on Wednesday is already being attacked as a typical Republican approach, that critics say would hand huge benefits to the rich - i.e. people like the President himself. The top 1 percent of earners receive more than two-thirds of pass-through income, and nearly 80 percent of the benefit from a 25 percent pass-through rate would go to taxpayers with incomes above $1 million.

With that provision, it "would be very hard to offset a tax cut" with the ideas that Republicans have put on the table in recent discussions, he said. Higher rates make it easier for banks to profit on the difference between what they charge borrowers and what they pay on interest. That's one way to fulfill Trump's goal, a White House official said Wednesday.

The While House unveiled a tax framework this week that would reduce the amount of individual tax brackets, cut the corporate rate, increase the standard deduction and expand child tax credits. So does veteran GOP consultant Bruce Bartlett, who, in his own words, helped create "the Republican tax myth". This new plan, on the other hand, seems to be wildly tilted in favor of corporations, at the expense of folks who work for a living. Wealthier New Yorkers would benefit from the proposed elimination of the estate tax.

While going on to explain that accumulated foreign earnings which are held in illiquid assets (think factories etc rather than cash, stocks, bonds and other easily transferable securities) will be taxed at a lower rate. And under this plan, you'd generally have to have a family income over $200,000 for that to be the case.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said repeatedly that the tax framework will end certain benefits, such as deductions and other perks, for high earners, lessening their benefit from lower tax rates.

Burman has found the vast majority of the benefits of a corporate tax cut will go to the wealthy.

Fresh off a blistering loss over health care, many lawmakers are cautiously optimistic their party can be more successful in overhauling the US tax code, a system they say is seriously lacking in popularity and in dire need of change.

The state of Kansas offers a ready example of what happens when you change how pass-throughs are taxed.

As such, it is theoretically possible to reduce taxes and the result to be an increase in the tax receipts that the government receives. The man who oversaw swashbuckling supply-side rate decreases in 1981? Nevertheless, the fact that Trump and at least some congressional Democrats are interested in bargaining suggest that this policy debate could yet end up producing actual smart, bipartisan reform.

House Speaker Paul Ryan talks about the Republicans' proposed rewrite of the USA tax code at the Capitol on Wednesday.

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